Music:
Member Since: 12/09/2007
Band Website: sayisay.com
Band Members: DJMC Microphone - Programming, lyrics, bass, etc.
Alex Price - Guitars and Engineering
Howard Doskey - Drums
Norman Spence - Bass and Keys
ATM - Lyricist and freestylin' maniac
Influences: Purple Women, Surviving the onslaught of purple people eaters and race haters alike, the Crescent City, terrible hip hop music, 9/11, Arthur C. Clarke (R.I.P. my nigga, inventor of the Star Child/2001 a Space Odyssey and global satelite communication), O.D.B. (R.I.P. to the only black God, Big Baby Jesus), shout out to Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, R.I.P. Soulja Slim, V.L. Mike, Sporty -T and all the rest the N.O. gangstas with musical talents we've lost this decade and the last. Robert Johnson, Dr. John, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Curtis Mayfield, Eminem, Ice-T, Peaches, UGK, RZA and the rest the Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Octagon(Kool Keith), Outkast, The Roots, and Gnarls Barkley.
Sounds Like: DJMC MIcrophone is New Orleans' own Ghettotech extraordinaire, a twenty-five-year-old multi-instrumentalist whose debut release, Greatest Hits Vol. 9, hit the stores in time for the holiday season. Already active on the local scene as the bassist for the rock outfit Snuff Sugar which features Alex Price on guitar and Dustin DiSalvo on drums, DJMC Microphone is a busy man these days.
If there is one word to describe his new album and him as a person, it is "irreverence." But in a day and age when hip-hop seems to be moving towards homogenization---when even the self-proclaimed "voice of this generation, of this decade" is now rocking the Vocoder almost exclusively on his newest effort (ya'll know who I'm talkin' about)--- this flippancy spins like a breath of fresh air. Not so much because the music exists in uncharted territory, but because this is the type of DIY fuck-off the genre needs right now. When was the last time you heard a sample of a 9/11 news report juxtaposed with a snippet from a thousand-person Japanese warehouse gangbang? Some may call this disrespectful or even unpatriotic, but I can assure that he couldn't care less, as evidenced on "Turn Me On Deadman."
Musically, Microphone exhibits a wide range of influences: compressed percussion via Aphex Twin surfaces as regularly as New Orleans Bounce and UGK-esque sizzurp, while on "Gibberish Toon" he nods Daptone soul and "Cuttin' It For Real" industrializes an oherwise poppy fuzz-key line. When paying mind to his lyrics, it is imperative to note that he considers himself a member of the "purple race" and therefore above common prejudices associated with everyday racism: " The third eye sees what it's like and it's not what's likely." No matter what you may take from this album DJMC Microphone is out there husltlin' his steez and it seems unlikely that this man and his krewe of Say, I Say Productions are going anywhere but up from here.
---Dan Mitchell, ANTIGRAVITY vol.6 no.3 jan. '09
Record Label: Say I Say
Type of Label: Major
